All The Things I Lost In The Flood

In this landmark volume, the artist brings together the most comprehensive writing about a collection of her artwork to date, some of which has never before been seen or published. Spanning drawing, multimedia installations, performance, and new projects in virtual reality, the extensive volume traverses four decades of her groundbreaking art, up to, and including her 2017 “Chalk Room” installation at Mass MoCA.

On View Through 2018 at Mass MoCA

Heart Of A Dog

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To The Moon is the latest VR experience by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. It is currently on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark until January 2019. CNN Style has a feature interview with Laurie available here.

Laurie appears on the cover of the June edition of The Wire. More active than ever, the multimedia artist and performer discusses a career marked by hybridity, borderless networks and a new interest in virtual reality. By Emily Bick. Read more at The Wire

Laurie appeared on Lauren Laverne’s show (with Tom Ravenscroft sittin in for Lauren) on BBC Radio 6 last week. Here are some clips from the interview. “The creative power of failure” “Our minds are the most powerful things we have. You don’t have to have that much stuff” Or listen to the entire 3-hour program Laurie also appeared on Tom

Chalkroom is now on display at the Phi Centre in Montreal as part of their Particles of Existence exhibition. The show runs from March 27 – August 12. More information is available from the Phi Centre.

Chalkroom a.k.a. La Camera Insabbiata by Laurie Anderson + Hsin-Chien Huang received the award for Best VR Experience at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. It was the first time that the festival has held a VR competition.

Laurie has several pieces on display at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA through 2018. The show incudes 2 new virtual reality pieces, the Lolabelle in the Bardo drawing series, a listening room, the Handphone Table, and a new ERST videopiece. More info here

Laurie will be taking part in the METAMORPHOSIS festival in Athens on June 25. She will be giving a live talk, a performance, and a screening of Heart of a Dog. Full schedule and more information can be viewed here.

Current Exhibitions

Mass MoCA:

Chalkroom & Aloft

Laurie has several pieces on display through 2018 at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA.

The show includes 2 new virtual reality pieces, the Lolabelle in the Bardo drawing series, a listening room, the Handphone Table and a new ERST videopiece.

Projects In Focus

Chalkroom

A virtual reality installation created along with Hsin-Chien Huang, Chalkroom is covered floor to ceiling with drawings and text that glow in the black-lit space.

Heart Of A Dog

A cinematic tone poem that flows from a sustained meditation on death and other forms of absence, the film seamlessly weaves together thoughts on Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation, the modern surveillance state, and the artistic lives of dogs, with an elegy for the filmmaker’s beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle, at its heart.

Habeas Corpus

Interweaving film, sculpture, music, and video to examine the story of Mohammed el Gharani, one of the youngest detainees at Guantanamo Bay.